Rich Parker in Alaska @cajun_cheechako@qoto.org

Bad news for folks below the Mendenhall Glacier (Juneau, AK) and along the river. Video (on ABC) taken by a neighbor across the river
https://abcnews.go.com/US/glacial-break-causes-major-flooding-alaska-destroys-structures/story?id=102056193

Nothing changes much.
Coming up on time to try again.

Jack Bruce/Cream/ Politician/1968

I support the left, tho' I'm leanin', leanin' to the right
I support the left, tho' I'm leanin' to the right
But I'm just not there when it's coming to a fight.

2005 reprise - Royal Albert Hall
https://youtu.be/tGQDWj4pnNc

Fresh kelp help - SE Alaska
Found very nice looking kelp at low tide at Outer Point. Took it home & put it in water - thinking I should add salt? - I want to do something with it, but realized I've no earthly idea what I'm doing. Any suggestions - Google foo has failed me so far.

* Further research and comments indicate it might be 'sea lettuce' ?

To be soaked in fresh water for a couple of hours, then spread out to dry in the shade?

Any other options/suggestions?

A reminder that many pets, and many vets, can be upset by random, loud fireworks.
Make sure that you respect folks in your neighborhood and use pyrotechnics in authorized locations, placed that can be easily avoided.

A friend reposted this on his Facebook page. I think it resonates well with the truth worth defending.
I (tongue in cheek) asked him if any Republicans knew this. He said, I don't know, I'm not a Republican. I replied, sorry, I meant to say Republican legislators (local, state, national) - but I very much doubt it. (He didn't reply)

Posted by Chad Bird - author of
Limping with God

The Nun and the Stripper

The most astonishing, countercultural truth in the kingdom of Jesus is that love and acceptance have zero basis in worth or accomplishment. A billionaire in New York City is no more worthy of love and acceptance than the schizophrenic homeless man sleeping in an alley.

Before any of us build a business or declare bankruptcy, before we earn a Ph.D. or drop out of high school, before we establish a soup kitchen or appear in a porn video, we are equally loved by the God who shows no favoritism.

Our personal success does not attract his love, nor does our failure expand or contract it.

The God who is love loves us indiscriminately, passionately, furiously.

That love was on cosmic display when, atop a Roman tree of crucifixion, Jesus became the millionaire and the addict, the nun and the stripper, the newborn baby and the wrinkled octogenarian.

All humanity—with its sores and wounds and twisted souls and barren lives and evil-infested pasts—he became that all humanity might become, in him, resplendent in the eyes of the Father.

Great news from D.C. about a very important radio program!
https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/native-america-calling-awarded-national-humanities-medal/

Another office dog (news dog).
Not sure if she really likes me or is just into the treats I give her.
(I suppose that's not mutually exclusive) ;)

Imagine if there was a lawsuit to prevent backstopping banks that was held up waiting for a decision by the Supreme Court.
A long read but this is an interesting tl;dr from it -
"While the Court may have authority to rule on legal questions of standing and executive interpretation of Congressional acts, other justices argued the economic impact of a policy should not factor in those legal decisions."
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2023/03/01/the-supreme-court-takes-up-student-loan-forgiveness-whats-at-stake/

I heard a rumour that 'tarps' were going on sale soon ;)

Sunday morning at Chapel by the Lake. Another rare, cold, sunny day in Juneau, AK.

If we'd never moved to Alaska I never would have discovered that an ulu is far superior to a pizzawheel for cutting pizza!